Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-11
GEOGRAPHIC BREyITIEs.
Domestic

Harry Clay, the noted trotting sire, is
dead, aged "a years.
On Saturday the st. Louis Baseball Club
again defeated the Chicagoes-9 to I.
DIR. McGlynn, the deposed New York
tour.
The President has appointed Eugene
Semple to be Governor Of Washington Ter
ritory.
The legislative investigation into Brook
Ign municipal affairs tended to show
crookedness on the part of several officials.
The general strike of the plumbers in
New York for an enforcement of the ap-
premiership system in the trade has at last
been declared off.
The boiler Of sawmill, near Harrisville,
Va, exploded Saturday, killing J. Scott, F.
Lirsay G. n. Williamson and Chas. Gray,
and injuring three others.
The President has appointed as Com
missioners to investigate the affairs of the
Pacific railways under the Act passed by
the last Congress, Robert T. Pattison, of
Pennsylvania; E. Ellery Anderson, of New
York, and David I. Littler, of Illinois.
Immense prairie fires burned over the
south half of Lake county, OAK, on Fri
day night, and some twenty-five farmers
lost their houses, barns, stock and grain.
France Keller was burned to death be-
tween his barn and house. The Madison
fle department was called out to protect
the town from the fire coming from the
west before the wind, which was blowing
forty miles an hour.
FOREIGN.
Michael DaVitt and wife have been pre-
scented with an elegant cottage, thoroughly
furnished, near Dublin.
The advanced Anarchists of Paris have
widely circulated through the poorer
quarters of Paris handbills urging the nom
payment of rent. The appeal has had
little, if any, effect.
Advices from st. Johns, Newfoundland,
indicate that schooner which arrived
there reports that the sealing steamer
Eagle, which was regarded lost with 300
persons on board, was taking seals in
White bay March oath. She was seen by
the steamer Aurora on the 9TH inst.
Old Californians will be startled by the
sad news of the death of G. X. Hobbs in
the Transvaal, Africa, which occurred
March Oath Hobbs was shot and killed
in a quarrel by Jefferson McClelland,
formerly of Virginia, New. The trouble
which resulted in Hobbs death was from a
misunderstanding relating to the stock of
the Mammoth mine in Mono county, Cal,
in 1879. Hobbs was well known and
respected in San Jose, and McClelland was
recognized as one of the best miners on the
Comstock.
PACIFIC COAST.
Samuel Evans, deck-hand on the
steamer Kellogg, was drowned at Portland,
Or, Saturday.
George w. Palfrey committed suicide by
shooting himself twice through the heart
at Santa Barbara.
prominent San Joaquin rancher is re-
ported to have eloped with his pretty do
lnestic, Miss Carrie Brown.
George W. Brooks, recently found guilty
of mayhem, at Red Bluff. has been SEN
fenced to two years in the Penitentiary.
The Directors of the San Joaquin Valley
Agricultural Association have received
plans for the new pavilion to be erected in
Stockton at a cost Of S35, 900.
Judge Keyser, of Yuba, has sentenced G.
Tucker, alias C. D. Atkinson, the young
man who robbed the Camptonvilie stage,
to San Quentin for eleven years.
Engine company No. 2, of Red Bluff,
has Just received a new Gleason & Baily
hand engine, which is claimed to be the
finest machine now on the coast.
DR.. Jarns, of Riverside, and four others
have Just completed the purchase of the
San Joaquin ranch in Los Angeles county,
south of Santa Ana, for 81 100000.
News comes from Bullion, Idaho, of
fatal accident in the Idahoian mine, in
which Thomas Walker and Archie Watson
were killed by blast on Saturday.
A Chinese miner at Alpha, Nevada county,
put a giant powder cartridge into stove TO
thaw it out. An explosion occurred and
the Chinaman and mis- cabin are missing.
Henry Hall, one of the oldest and most
prominent residents of Bloomfield, So
mona, is dead. He was pioneer and one
of the largest property-owners in the
county.
As the result of the survey of the United
States steamers Shenandoah and Lacka-
wanna, ct Mare Island, these vessels will be
sold at public auction, and their names will
be stricken from the naval register.
The jury in the Frankel case, on a charge
of enlightenment, at Virginia, New after
being out twenty hours. brought in a YER
dict of not guilty. There yet remains three
indictments against the Frankels on the
same charge.
There was sensation in San Diego on
Friday, when the case of Michael Clancy,
charged with a felonious assault on Miss
Fannie Honeg, came up. The victims
sister pulled a revolver from under her
cloak, intending to shoot Clancy. She was
disarmed and led out of the Court